I believe the folksy saying here would be “lipstick on a pig.” From the article: “Facebook said it would begin barring politicians from placing new ads on Fac

I believe the folksy saying here would be “lipstick on a pig.” From the article: “Facebook said it would begin barring politicians from placing new ads on Facebook and Instagram, the photo-sharing service it owns, starting on Oct. 27. Existing political ads will not be affected.” Well then, amend that folksy saying to “lipstick on a pig, but we didn’t even finish painting his lips.” What possible difference could a week of different ad content make? “Misinformation across private communication channels is a much more difficult problem to tackle than on public social networks because it is hidden. Limiting message forwarding could slow that spread.” Again, little bit of lipstick on a gargantuan pig. I think the bulk of the really whacky stuff on Facebook is in semi-private groups; even my local neighborhood group is full of nonsense. (People are just obsessed with 5G causing cancer.) Now, do I have a solution for this? Nope. I have no earthly idea how you police disinformation at scale. Heck, even if Facebook developed some sort of near-god-level AI that could track all this down, the craziness would just move to other platforms. (See: QAnon on TikTok.) I just find it a bit offensive they’re even pretending they can do something.